Radiation, Day Two

Hi Friends,

Well, after all of our musings about Sting's "Fragile" during yesterday's radiation treatment, I asked the technicians today about their song choice and why I heard only the intro and the final chord. Andrea and Iris, my two totally lovely technicians laughed and explained that they have a crappy boom box in the room and it skips all the time. So they bring music to play, and they encourage patients to bring in their own selections, although there's no guarantee the machine will play it properly. Today, after getting rigged up in the machine, they started the beams and played their selection for the day: Anne Murray's rendition of "Amazing Grace." It's a little chilling to be radiated to that song and I may never hear it exactly the same way again. I'll see what's playing tomorrow and keep a little log. I'll be going every weekday until the last day of winter, so I'll at least get to know what music my technicians enjoy. By the way, each day I go to radiation unit #15; there are 17 at PMH and 457 people go through them each day. Talk about amazing...

Today, Julie Salverson sent me blog entries by a woman who had radiation in 2009 at Sunnybrook. She commented that in her radiation unit they played April Wine and Gino Vanelli. It seems they are into Canadian content at Sunnybrook. God, I had no idea there might be a research paper here.

Of course, if any of you have a song suggestion, let me know, and I'll bring it in and play it during treatment. I can't think off the top of my head any songs that might have to do with radiation, but I bet someone out there does...

Love,
Kip

PS: I just asked Catherine if she had any ideas and she suggested "Here Comes the Sun" and "Heat Wave." Well done. New playlist anyone?